Intel is an American chipmaker with something most of its competitors don't have. There's a part of the Intel story that I think gets overlooked. Intel is an American company. It was founded in California in 1968, is headquartered in Silicon Valley, and has spent decades developing semiconductor technology and manufacturing capacity inside the United States. Compared with the major fabless chip designers, Intel possesses something strategically different. It has the ability to design leading edge processors and manufacture leading edge logic chips on American soil using Intel's own manufacturing technology and fabs. Intel actually manufactures leading edge chips in America. That distinction matters. Companies like NVIDIA and AMD are largely fabless semiconductor companies. They design some of the world's most important chips, but rely heavily on outside foundries to manufacture them, particularly Taiwan Semiconductor.

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